Frank Arnesen
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Frank Arnesen | ||
| Date of birth | 30 September 1956 | ||
| Place of birth | Copenhagen, Denmark | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1974–1975 | Fremad Amager | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1975–1981 | Ajax | 209 | (75) |
| 1981–1983 | Valencia | 32 | (13) |
| 1983–1985 | Anderlecht | 50 | (15) |
| 1985–1988 | PSV | 55 | (11) |
| Total | 346 | (114) | |
| National team | |||
| 1973 | Denmark U17 | 1 | (1) |
| 1973–1975 | Denmark U19 | 13 | (4) |
| 1975–1976 | Denmark U21 | 4 | (0) |
| 1977–1987 | Denmark | 52 | (14) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1991–1994 | PSV (Assistant coach) | ||
| 1994–2004 | PSV (Sporting Director) | ||
| 2004–2005 | Tottenham Hotspur (Sporting Director) | ||
| 2005–2010 | Chelsea (Sporting Director) | ||
| 2011–2013 | Hamburger SV (Sporting Director) | ||
| 2014 | Metalist Kharkiv (Sporting Director) | ||
| 2015–2016 | PAOK (Sporting Director) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Frank Arnesen (born 30 September 1956) is a former Danish footballer. Arnesen was the Director of Football at English football clubs Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea, and was Sporting Director at Hamburger SV, Metalist Kharkiv and PAOK FC.
As a player, he most notably played with Dutch clubs Ajax and PSV Eindhoven, winning the 1988 European Cup with PSV. Arnesen was capped 52 times and scored 14 goals for the Danish national team, and participated in the Euro 1984 and 1986 FIFA World Cup tournaments.
Arnesen moved from his childhood club Fremad Amager, in the lower leagues of Danish football, to the big Dutch team Ajax in November/December 1975. At the time he was only 19, and made the move together with Fremad Amager and teammate Søren Lerby, who was only 17. Arnesen got his debut with Ajax 3 or 4 months later, on 7 March 1976, in a 1–1 draw with FC Utrecht. It was also in his time at Ajax, that Arnesen debuted for the Danish national team, in a 1977 friendly 1–0 loss against Sweden, in Malmö. In Arnesen's six seasons at Ajax, he won three Dutch Eredivisie championship titles in 1977, 1979, and 1980, and won the KNVB Cup in 1979, beating FC Twente 3–0 in the final. In 1980, Arnesen and Ajax reached the semi-final of the European Cup, before they were eliminated by English team Nottingham Forest (2–0 away loss, 1–0 home win).
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